Blind people touch elephants, which is an idiom of China. This is a metaphor. When looking at a problem, the point always replaces the surface to generalize. The object of irony in fables is short-sighted people. Excerpted from Dragon Agama, Volume 19. This is a derogatory term.
idiom
Make a comprehensive judgment on sth. Based on a one-sided view
transfer
Manlun Mosion
Emotional color
derogatory term
Generation age
ancient times
Idiom explanation
Make a comprehensive judgment on sth. Based on a one-sided view
Athena Chu: Malang Mosion
Make a comprehensive judgment on sth. Based on a one-sided view
Explanation: blind: blind; To make a metaphor, if you don't fully understand the problem, you must replace the surface with points and summarize it with points.
A king said to his minister, "Show a photo to the blind." ..... When the blind people touched each other with their hands, the king called the blind people and asked each other, "What is an elephant?" Those who touch their teeth say "pictographs are like radish roots"; People who touch their ears talk like a dustpan. Its contacts are like "stones"; People who touch their noses talk like pestle ③; People who touch their feet talk like "mortar" ④; Those who touch the spine say "like a bed"; He who touches the abdomen speaks like an urn, and he who touches the tail speaks like a rope.
Precautions:
1 radish: radish.
② dustpan: dustpan, an instrument for lifting rice and removing chaff.
③ pestle (chǔ): a round stick with a thick end and a thin end, used for holding rice, etc.
(4) "mortar": an instrument made of wood or wood.
⑤ Ridge: This refers to the back.
⑥ urn (wèng): a kind of pottery with a big belly.
Usage: subject-predicate type; As an object, attribute and clause; derogatory sense
Example: Qing Liu's "Yang Guang Miscellaneous Notes" Volume 4: "Wide collection of sundries, a golden arrow, four calls, only one limb, thinking about all."
Lu Xun's This is Life: "People who preach to celebrities generally exaggerate their characteristics ... so the people or things they see are like ~"
Synonym: peep at the leopard in the tube, sit in the well and watch the sky.
Antonym: Insight into everything, look up and observe, and know everything like the back of your hand.
Lantern riddle: Shun father caresses his young son.